She also spoke at a Texas Democratic event in 2011 where she repeatedly mocked her home state for being "crazy."

"When we grew up I remember in first grade we learned a song about Arizona," she said. "Arizona is the state of the five C's: cattle, copper, citrus, cotton, and climate. And those were the five things that our state historically made its money off of. But I would add a sixth C, it's called ‘crazy.'"

In another video, Sinema, who is an assistant professor at Arizona State University, refers to the institution as a "party school" and says that not all her students "come with all the same kinds of academic tools and academic rigor" she would hope they'd come to class with.

In that same panel discussion, Sinema said she often has to teach her graduate level students that "Wikipedia is not an appropriate citation source."

Sinema faces Republican candidate Rep. Martha McSally (R., Ariz.), a retired Air Force officer, to fill the seat currently held by Sen. Jeff Flake (R., Ariz.), who is not running for re-election. McSally was the first woman in U.S. history to fly a fighter jet in combat and the first to command a fighter squadron. A recent ABC15-OH poll has McSally polling above Sinema, 47 points to 41 points.

Aryssa DamronEmail Aryssa | Full Bio | RSSAryssa Damron is a 2018 fall intern at the Washington Free Beacon. She is a graduate student at the University of Kentucky and holds a B.A. in English from Yale University. Prior to working at the Free Beacon, she interned with Simon & Schuster, Regnery Publishing, Conservative Book Club, and the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute.